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« on: October 25, 2021, 15:04 »
Hi All,
If you have vectors and/or illustrations online in your Adobe Stock portfolio, check the contributor portal between now (Monday, Oct 25) and November 2. Selected assets may be available for you to nominate to be accepted into the Adobe Stock Free collection. If your nominated asset is accepted after the nomination window closes on November 2 you will be paid an upfront amount of $5 per asset. It's a short window for nominations so act fast!
Let me know if you have any questions,
Mat Hayward
Mat, is it really the right way for an agency whose business model is to sell images to now give them away for free? I see this as a huge danger for the future. Potential customers learn from the fact that there are more and more images that are given away. Why should they still buy images in the future? The problem is that in your free selection there are many really very good images. And the - in part very successful - contributors I have spoken to, who release their images for your free selection, only do so behause the algorithm has already buried the images, even though they are good. From my point of view this way is wrong and will lead to massive problems. Also for you. Many contributors only see the short-term additional earnings. If they were to look ahead into the future, they would have to keep their distance from this in my view. I am well aware that the sale of software products is more important to you. And you can integrate the free images into them. But in the long run, the signal you are sending out is economically wrong! Regards, Wilm
877
« on: October 25, 2021, 14:44 »
Today sums up my whole month on SS pretty accurately: Had 50 sales today and still only a single digit earning amount. 
I can't manage 50 downloads a day anymore.
But I once compared the difference between the levels.
100 downloads level 1 vs 100 downloads level 5.
If you take the percentage of sales to $0.10, it's like this:
Level 1: 80 x $0.10
Level 5: 26 x $0.10
So there is a clear difference between the levels.
But another comparison causes disillusionment:
Level 1: 80 x ≤ $0.20
Level 5: 72 x ≤ $0.20
Therefore, it is hardly surprising if you do not earn $10 with 50 downloads.
Not sure I understand those numbers? Here are some of mine, which do not include any of my racing images:
Oldest 100 no racing 2009 RPD $0.55
Newest 100 no racing 2019 RPD .68
Newest 100 no racing 2020 RPD .36
Newest 100 2021 no racing RPD .16
Top 11 images, all time No Racing RPD .71 (because #12 was a racing image)
Since 2021 isn't over, I can wait, but if your point was, we make less now, pretty much, no matter what level, mine are showing that's true.
The easiest part was taking my first 100 images that have been on SS "forever" not saying they are any good. 
I only wanted to point out, that even at level 5 more than 70% of the downloads are below $0,20. And this can lead to earnings below $10 with 50 downloads - as in Firn's example.
Yes, we make less now. But at the same time I have to admit that my RPD in October 2019 - before the introduction of the new earnings structure - was miserable, too.
On the other hand, there are people who do just as well as before, I'm not one of them, and I get less downloads, plus they are for less money.
I know exactly this problem very well, Pete! I know, what you are Talking about!
878
« on: October 25, 2021, 11:28 »
Today sums up my whole month on SS pretty accurately: Had 50 sales today and still only a single digit earning amount.
I can't manage 50 downloads a day anymore.
But I once compared the difference between the levels.
100 downloads level 1 vs 100 downloads level 5.
If you take the percentage of sales to $0.10, it's like this:
Level 1: 80 x $0.10
Level 5: 26 x $0.10
So there is a clear difference between the levels.
But another comparison causes disillusionment:
Level 1: 80 x ≤ $0.20
Level 5: 72 x ≤ $0.20
Therefore, it is hardly surprising if you do not earn $10 with 50 downloads.
Not sure I understand those numbers? Here are some of mine, which do not include any of my racing images:
Oldest 100 no racing 2009 RPD $0.55
Newest 100 no racing 2019 RPD .68
Newest 100 no racing 2020 RPD .36
Newest 100 2021 no racing RPD .16
Top 11 images, all time No Racing RPD .71 (because #12 was a racing image)
Since 2021 isn't over, I can wait, but if your point was, we make less now, pretty much, no matter what level, mine are showing that's true.
The easiest part was taking my first 100 images that have been on SS "forever" not saying they are any good.
I only wanted to point out, that even at level 5 more than 70% of the downloads are below $0,20. And this can lead to earnings below $10 with 50 downloads - as in Firn's example. Yes, we make less now. But at the same time I have to admit that my RPD in October 2019 - before the introduction of the new earnings structure - was miserable, too.
879
« on: October 25, 2021, 03:46 »
Today sums up my whole month on SS pretty accurately: Had 50 sales today and still only a single digit earning amount.
I can't manage 50 downloads a day anymore. But I once compared the difference between the levels. 100 downloads level 1 vs 100 downloads level 5. If you take the percentage of sales to $0.10, it's like this: Level 1: 80 x $0.10 Level 5: 26 x $0.10 So there is a clear difference between the levels. But another comparison causes disillusionment: Level 1: 80 x ≤ $0.20 Level 5: 72 x ≤ $0.20 Therefore, it is hardly surprising if you do not earn $10 with 50 downloads.
880
« on: October 21, 2021, 09:36 »
October 01 - 21, 2021 vs. 2020
shutterstock:
minus 26 downloads
minus $61,15
AS
plus 21 downloads
plus $85,18
881
« on: October 21, 2021, 09:17 »
hi i ve been composing some music lately and i ve bee posting it in youtube and tik tok
i used two wallapers from my pc as a background to my music .when i played somewhere over the rainbow in the piano and i used a movie poster of wizard of ozz it was shadowbaned in tik tok.they use AI and the AI saw it as a copyright thing
i found this page free images.com and if offers high quality images as roylalty free.some people take these images cause these are public domain and sell it in stock sites
i dont want to sell these images,but i wanna use them as backgrounds to my music for yt and tik tok
so my qs is can i do that? cause it says the site is royalty free images.i dont want to get warnings in the future from yt .
is anyone else using these from these sites to your project?
There was a website of a provider of vacation accommodation. This page was full of microstock photos. The company had bought the images but for what reason ever marked them as public domain images in the imprint. Name of the photographer@CC (creative commons). The page is obviously not accessible at the moment. I currently get an error message that the site is not secure. But I can make a screenshot from google search. But what I want to say is: You can't always be sure that an image that is shown to you as public domain has ended up there legally or by mistake. I personally assume that this applies to a lot of images.
882
« on: October 18, 2021, 15:40 »
But it's good that everything turned out okay in the end. I actually didn't expect that.
I wonder what Shutterstock does with the money from a closed account with stolen photos. Would they pay back the customer who bought the photos, or compensate the people whose photos were stolen? 
Thijs, I don't think they pay any compensation to the copyright owner. I assume that they just keep the money. In many cases you can find an identical image in four or five portfolios. There were lots of those examples. How would they know who took the Image. Especially in the case when the person who took the picture doesn't even offer at shutterstock - that also happens often enough. I have also never read or heard that a contributors was compensated.
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